http://climatecodered.blogspot.com/2010/01/pine-island-glacier-loss-must-force.html
use link, and yes there are probably too many climate warnings and failed global meetings for this or any other disaster climate warnings to be heeded. But surely there is now ( apart from G W Bush and followers) a realisation, in the West,Â that the planets climate is changing, it is more unpredictable and the cause is rising CO2 levels.
From the failed global meetings, emergent nations are not going to voluntary reduce their economic advancement in line with the the emerged nations wishes who have obtained economic strength by the present levels of CO2. They are on the economic up and we are in realisation mode regarding sustainable human economic presence on this planet. Well not all of us but enough.
Problem; getting a large committee to agree
Problem; the committee has divergent objectives
Solution? who knows, but we all live on this third rock from the Sun and when that life risk is eventually and unequivocally brought to a final cause, the solution will have gone past the tipping point.
Is sustainable growth just a concept and on global terms an illusion?
good news? Â Â the planet will survive, we will not, as presently configured.